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How to Fix GMail Unread Messages Favicon(gist.github.com)
1 points by wpeterson 14y ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 14y ago
I guess it's time for NewRelic to add an Arc agent.
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by wpeterson 14y ago
I'm interested to see a new tech stack for Discourse vs. StackExchange: Ember.js and Rails backend vs. C#/.NET
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ActiveModel Type Coercion and API Validation(blog.winfieldpeterson.com)
1 points by wpeterson 14y ago|0 comments
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Cookies in Hybrid Android Apps(blog.winfieldpeterson.com)
2 points by wpeterson 14y ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 14y ago
Confirmed that this only leaks memory if used incorrectly, standard implementations like Newrelic sample this safely, without leaking memory. Here's a link to the GC profiling agent code in the Newrelic Agent: https://github.com/newrelic/r
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MongoDB Indexing, count(), and unique validations(blog.winfieldpeterson.com)
2 points by wpeterson 14y ago|0 comments
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App Cloud, a free and open-source app development platform. Reddit AMA(reddit.com)
1 points by wpeterson 14y ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 14y ago
Did you sign an offer letter? If so, you've probably burned that bridge and several adjacent. If not, it's touchy and tender, but not necessarily a mark against you.
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Password Salting isn't just for Servers(blog.winfieldpeterson.com)
1 points by wpeterson 14y ago|2 comments
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by wpeterson 14y ago
A good sprint retrospective in Scrum should be similar to what I've read about After Action Reviews (AAR). One the dust settles, spend time to figure out what went well, what can be improved, and what the on-going issues are. They both see
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by wpeterson 14y ago
This is an important thing to realize. For most teams, the differences in backgrounds and experience provide different perspectives that are key to a good design or decision. More importantly, any meaningful system/product is large and comp
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by wpeterson 15y ago
This is the difference between an engineer and a programmer. That programmer is giving literally correct answers but acting like a passive subject in what should be an active relationship. Our role as engineers is to push back on all of the
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by wpeterson 15y ago
Disappointing Steve Yegge rant on Agile. TLDR: Agile sucks, but I've never done it, now I did it, it's pretty good. Google does Agile OK, but I wish Steve Yegge could see Agile @patientslikeme - no BS, lots to love - it'd be a very differen
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Resque Queue Priority(blog.winfieldpeterson.com)
2 points by wpeterson 15y ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 15y ago
Seriously. The last thing I want is my Macbook Pro to behave like my iPhone. I love them both, but they are drastically different products and uses.
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A Year of WOW (20% time) at PatientsLikeMe(blog.winfieldpeterson.com)
12 points by wpeterson 15y ago|0 comments
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by wpeterson 15y ago
We do struggle with this, too. We rotate one person on 2-week interrupt-driven bug duty - we do have bugs we have to address immediately, but the interruptions are constrained to one victim. This helps protect the rest of the team. We also
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by wpeterson 15y ago
That's a valid concern. We hire motivated folks who often work on side-projects whether they're work-related or not (a lot of open source contributors, etc). In our experience it's worked out well, the higher levels of energy and passion s
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by wpeterson 15y ago
http://www.patientslikeme.com/about/team
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by wpeterson 15y ago
We're a little over 40 people right now, a little less than half that in engineering/data operations.
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WOW Week at PatientsLikeMe(blog.winfieldpeterson.com)
41 points by wpeterson 15y ago|10 comments
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by wpeterson 15y ago
There are obviously people who don't add any value and instigate vitriol that should be banned. On the other hand, you have people like Ted Dziuba who often provoke controversy and critique popular ideas/products. I find those critiques bo
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by wpeterson 15y ago
Trolling is the spice or salt that keeps things interesting. Too much can definitely turn everything brackish. But seeing some humor/sarcasm even if it's pointed mixed in with all of the serious discourse keeps it all manageable.
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by wpeterson 15y ago
Unless you're using Microsoft servers/tools like .NET, this is another nail in the coffin as Windows machines as a viable platform for most web-development. I spent the first year of my Rails development on Windows and it was so painful - s
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by wpeterson 15y ago
How else can you get it to work in IE?
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by wpeterson 15y ago
The only difference in this implementation is that it uses memory-based caching (memoization) to compute given value once and then serve the cached copy. Of course this is fast for 1000 iterations, since the effective cost is zero from the
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by wpeterson 15y ago
This article is a (well written) startup distraction.
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by wpeterson 15y ago
The percentage of people who can complete a basic coding challenge during interview is more a testament to your phone screening than to the population of candidates. If you're not weeding out these people with a 10-15 minute phone call you'
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by wpeterson 15y ago
It's a bad comparison. If you're going to serve static assets, you're better off using CloudFront which has better delivery and lets you set proper cache headers so you won't have to use as much bandwidth. Aside from serving assets efficien

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